31 Days toward Trusting God

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“God must continually be at work on our tendency to rely on ourselves instead of on Him. Apart from our union with Christ and a total reliance upon Him, we can do nothing that glorifies God. We live in a world that worships independence and self-reliance, and because of our own sinful nature, we can easily fall into the world’s pattern of thinking. God has to teach us through adversity to rely on Him instead of our own business acumen, our ministry experience, and even our goodness and morality.” (source)

“It’s not the adversity considered in itself that is to be the grounds for our joy; rather, it is the expectation of the results—the development of our character—that should cause us to rejoice in adversity.” (source)

“but also all the intermediate events and circumstances that will bring us to that outcome.” (source)

“We must come to truly accept that God’s ways are simply beyond us. This may seem like an intellectual cop-out, a refusal to deal with life’s tough issues. In fact, it’s just the opposite. It’s a surrender to the truth about God and our circumstances as revealed by God Himself in His inspired Word.” (source)

“But each of those psalms ends on a note of trust in God. These psalmists didn’t allow their whys to drag on or to take root and grow into accusations against God. Their whys were really cries of anguish, a natural reaction to pain.” (source)